We will need also Jenkins, cassandra-builds. We need to add also j11 upgrade tests and fix some other inconsistencies what jobs we run. I have it on my list and some things partially ready. And I am sure I am missing something. As I said in Slack, I am not against, just trying to be optimal and creating less noise when/where it is possible and be efficient so that people on all ends can progress with whatever they work on. Let’s talk to Mick and put down the pin-points and assess the plan? How about that?
On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 at 17:25, Blake Eggleston <beggles...@apple.com> wrote: > Can you say some more about what extra work you expect removing jdk8 to > cause? I'd expect removing jdk8 to be mostly subtractive (from build.xml > and circleci confs), and jdk17 support to be mostly additive. > > We're getting ready to merge the first set of accord integration patches, > and the accord library requires java11+. My understanding is that jdk17 > support in C* is still several months away, so if we can avoid making one a > dependency on the other, that would be preferable. > > > On Aug 29, 2022, at 2:01 PM, Brandon Williams <dri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1 for removing it when we add 17, to avoid making extra work. > > Kind Regards, > Brandon > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 3:40 PM Blake Eggleston <beggles...@apple.com> > wrote: > > > Sorry, I meant trunk, not 4.1 :) > > On Aug 29, 2022, at 1:09 PM, Blake Eggleston <beggles...@apple.com> wrote: > > Hi all, I wanted to propose removing jdk8 support for 4.1. Active support > ended back in March of this year, and I believe the community has built > enough confidence in java 11 to make it an uncontroversial change for our > next major release. Let me know what you think. > > Thanks, > > Blake > > > >
